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Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?:A transitivity analysis
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The increase in infections resistant to the existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe; however, among the public there is a sense that this is an issue beyond their control. Research has shown that the news media can have a significant role to play in the public's understanding of science and medicine. In this article, we respond to a call by research councils in the United Kingdom to study antibiotic or antimicrobial resistance as a social phenomenon by providing a linguistic analysis of reporting on this issue in the UK press. We combine transitivity analysis with a social representations framework to determine who and what the social actors are in discussions of antimicrobial resistance in the UK press (2010-2015), as well as which of those social actors are characterised as having agency in the processes around antimicrobial resistance. Findings show that antibiotics and the infections they are designed to treat are instilled with agency, that there is a tension between allocating responsibility to either doctors-as-prescribers or patients-as-users and collectivisation of the general public as an unspecified 'we': marginalising livestock farming and pharmaceutical industry responsibilities.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/126857/ https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/126857/1/Collins_2C_L_et_al_AAM_Who_or_what_has_agency_in_the_discussion_of_antimicrobial_resistance_in_UK_news_media_282010_2015_29_A_transitivity_analysis.pdf https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459317715777
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Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)? A transivity analysis
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Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis
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How certain is ‘certain’?:Exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report
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Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change:A corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles
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Uncertainty discourses in the context of climate change: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK national newspaper articles
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How certain is ‘certain’?: exploring how the English-language media reported the use of calibrated language in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report
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Climate change and ‘climategate’ in online reader comments: a mixed methods study
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Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors and the argument from catastrophe
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Climate change and 'climategate' in online reader comments: a mixed methods study
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From carbon markets to carbon morality: creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation
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